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Re: RFC: PPP over X

To: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RFC: PPP over X
From: Mark Spencer <markster@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:34:11 -0600 (EST)
Cc: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>, Henner Eisen <eis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, axboe@xxxxxxx, mitch@xxxxxxxxxx, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>, Marc Boucher <marc@xxxxxxx>, paulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ben LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <14490.63167.969929.894420@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Do you mean that the PPP daemon always negotiated PPP over a character 
> device?  I think we've reached a consensus that pppd should not assume 
> what kind of device it is negotiating over --- and leave that instead
> to one of the  plugins that knows all of the details (e.g.: setting up 
> PPP line discipline for modem connections).

pppd would run on /dev/ppp and would negotiate the PPP using that file
descriptor.  What would actually supply the PPP frames to the kernel (and
thus eventually to /dev/ppp) is up to the kernel driver.  

That's just how I did it.

Mark


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